PhD Proposal Review: Efficient State and Parameter Estimation in Three-Phase Power Systems Ramtin Khalili Location: Microsoft Link Abstract: As the number of renewable energy sources, bulk energy storage systems, and non-conventional loads increase and connect to the power grid not only at transmission but also sub-transmission and distribution levels, three-phase unsymmetrical network monitoring becomes necessary […]

PhD Proposal Review: Fault Location in Radial and Meshed Networks Containing Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) Cesar Antonio Galvez Nunez Location: Microsoft Teams Link Abstract: Rapidly increasing numbers of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) connected to transmission and distribution networks via Inverter Based Power Sources (IBPSs) introduce new challenges in detecting and locating faults. Distribution networks are […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Automation Design and DNN Acceleration Frameworks: from software implementation to hardware physical design Hongjia Li Location: Northeastern Zoom Link Abstract: With the breakthrough of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in the past decade, neural network-based computer vision has made huge progress, achieving exceptional performance. Tasks such as object detection, activity detection, and medical […]